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How is this different from Colored Coins? Or CryptoKitties?

I'm pretty bullish on cryptos in general, but I just don't 'get' this. Maybe it will take some time to sink in with me, but at the moment it just seems like the latest crypto pump-and-dump. Especially with the number of people on Clubhouse shilling them.

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CryptoKitties are NFTs. A NFT on the Ethereum network is an ERC-721 token which makes a what cryptokitties is built on.

Colored coins was a proposal to add tokenized asset capability to the Bitcoin blockchain but I don’t think that went anywhere. Ethereum was originally going to be built on bitcoin but Vitalik was not welcomed by the bitcoin devs so he started his own thing.

NFT is to artwork what Bitcoin is to gold. That's the way I see it anyway.

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